Examinator, if you don't want anyone to respond to you, stop bleeding all over the internet.

It is idiot bleeding hearts, like you, who are totally responsible for the the mess we are getting even deeper into every day. Then you get your knickers in a knot, when you are proven wrong. You disgust me.

If you can rant mate, so will I, & I, with my son, have a bit more cause than you.

Thank you runner. It is a reasonably dangerous operation he has to face, caused almost as much by medical incompetence as our "Leb" mates, but he is OK now, apart from headaches.

He does not like the idea of some doctor, bashing him with a hammer, then digging around in his brain. As he said, lets hope this one is better than the first one, who sent him home with his pack of Panadol.

Hasbeen you and your son have my sympathy and understanding.
I share your anger and concern too.
And like it or not I too think judges, magistrates and all who sit in judgment should be Representative of us.
I very much feel costs of prisons is the most usually used excuse to not give justice to victims.
I could not live with myself if ever I did not feel anger at such as your story.
Is it so very wrong to understand some, from every race, are while young more like animals than human?
Youth culture has its bad apples your case highlights one well know problem that in No way is anything other than true.

Thank you Belly, I'm sure he'll be fine. It would appear we have more in common, the more we learn.

He will be quite well prepared in future. Any one silly enough to attack him will bite off a bit more than they expect.

The planners continually bleat about wanting people to use public transport, but if it's not safe for a fit young bloke to walk home from the railway station, in daylight, how would you like your wife, or daughter to be doing it at 6PM, on a winter night.

I'm glad I left Sydney in the early 70s, it is not a place I would want to live today.

Hasbeen - best wishes to your son and yourself - godspeed to as full a recovery as possible and a safe future.

examinator - YOU are just as intractible and unreasonable as you accuse others - you seemingly mindlessly spout all the "usual" bleeding heart PC platitudes and CRAP that have led us to ever worsening ruin. You also misrepresent people which is very disrespectful (I never suggested street lynchings etc. - utter rubbish) and YOU are the one who indulges in "first strike" personal attacks in discussions where people are otherwise discoursing the issue without attacking each other. YOU end up being the lowest denominator in many discussions and I don't hold a very high opinion of you as a person I'm afraid.

Being contrary is NOT the same as actually having an opinion, or a personality, or indeed a spine - you're boring, predictable, unpleasant and offer nothing constructive so please go away.

Some more facts have come out about both parties in the crash in today's Canberra Times.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/crash-victim-faced-car-theft-charges/1784630.aspx

It looks as though the men in both cars who were killed were mates who BOTH had a background stealing cars. It looks more and more like some true justice may have been done here.

In a perverse sort of way, maybe the judges and police did get it right after all.

It is this rabid post that is offensive.

"I'm not interested in trying to rehabilitate this scum. You can't turn a wild dog, into anything worth having, I just want them off the street, long term.

Some WW11 POW type camps would do, preferably, somewhere hot & nasty. They should be locked up until they are too dam old to hurt anyone."
BTW My fater was on the Burma railway and Hasbeen's comment was offensive, over the top and disrespectful for those who lived through it.
True to form it is only comments like the above I don't wish to associated with.

Spinner,
Since when is being objective intractable. Nor was I talking about
rehabilitation as was assumed by Hasbeen.
I didn't say you were advocating Lynch mobs! I said that. It was a satirical comment in an attempt to show you the superficial (revengeful nature of your suggestion.